Biology 801
Blood & Immune System Lab Assignment
Your Name
April 19, 2013
Part I: Google It!
For the following questions, please use your finest inter-web searching skills to find the answers. Please
answer all questions in this Microsoft Word document. Please make sure all your answers are in a bolded font.
This makes it easier to assess. When you finish you can print it off to submit, or email it to MR. Kelly at
mkelly@edu.pe.ca.
1. What are germs?
2. What are three ways germs can get into the body?
3. What causes an infection?
4. What are the six parts of the body’s immune system?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
5.
What is the job of white blood cells in the immune system?
6. Why do lymph nodes swell up during an infection?
7. Where are the tonsils and adenoids found?
8. What type of germs do the tonsils and adenoids help to destroy?
9. Where is the thymus gland found?
10. Where is the spleen found?
11. Phagocytes are a type of white blood cell. What is their job in the immune system?
12. In addition to making and storing blood cells, what else does the spleen do?
Part II: Web Quest
For each of the following sections, go to the directed website to find the answers.
WEBSITE #1: Rabies
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/kidsrabies/
Click on “WHAT IS RABIES?”
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. Can be spread from animal to __________________or from animal to ________________.
3. Can a FROG, LIZARD, or HAWK get rabies? Why or why not? EXPLAIN!
4. Identify FOUR animals that commonly get rabies.
A.
C.
B.
D.
5. WOW! Is rabies common? How many people UNDER THE AGE of 15 die from RABIES each year?
Click on “HOW DO YOU KNOW IF AN ANIMAL HAS RABIES?”
1. What are some symptoms in animals that are signs that the animal may be infected with rabies?
a.
b.
CLICK ON RABIES “GET THE FACTS”. CORRECT THOSE STATEMENTS THAT ARE FALSE!
2. True or False: Rabies cases have been found in every state in the United States.
3. True or False: If a snake bites you, you can get rabies.
4. “Roscoe” your normally friendly Rottweiler, tries to bite you! Could this be a sign of rabies?
5. You see a raccoon out during the day, normally a nocturnal animal…Could this animal have rabies? EXPLAIN
why or why not:
6. What does the word “RABIES” mean?
7. The RABIES virus attacks which part of your body?
8. TRUE or FALSE: RABIES is passed through blood to blood contact.
9. How can rabies be prevented? (List at least two ways)
WEBSITE #2: Polio
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/polio.html
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. SCROLL DOWN TO “Contagiousness” How does one get polio?
3. When is the polio vaccine given? At what age?
4. If someone is infected with Polio, what are the symptoms? (Identify TWO)
a)
b)
WEBSITE #3: Mumps
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mumps.html
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. One sign or symptom of MUMPS is a swollen neck, why do you think this occurs?
WEBSITE #4: Strep Throat
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/infection/strep_throat.html
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. What if strep throat is left UNTREATED…what will happen?
3. How do you get strep throat? Name two ways:
a.
b
4. What is the difference between a RAPID STREP THROAT TEST and a THROAT CULTURE?
5. How and you PREVENT STREP THROAT? (Identify at least three ways)
a.
b.
c.
WEBSITE #5: Chicken Pox
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/chickenpox2.shtml
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. TRUE or FALSE: The older you are…the more severe your chicken pox condition is.
3. Identify three Signs or Symptoms of Chicken Pox:
A.
B.
C.
4. TRUE or FALSE: There is a vaccine in order to prevent chicken pox.
Website #6: AIDS/HIV
http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/yf/famsci/he488w.htm
1. Caused by a virus or bacteria?
2. Are the following statements TRUE or FALSE?
a) Anyone can acquire HIV.
b) You can't tell by looking if a person is infected.
c) You won't get HIV through everyday contact with people in the workplace, at school, at the swimming
pool or in any other casual situation.
d) HIV is not passed in spit or sweat
e) If a mosquito bites someone with HIV and then it bites you, you are at risk of getting HIV.
f) You can get HIV from a toilet seat.
3. What are the TWO MOST COMMON WAYS of spreading HIV?
A.
B.
Website #7: Pneumonia
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/lung/pneumonia.html
1. TRUE or FALSE : Pneumonia can be caused by either a bacterial infection or a viral infection.
2. Pneumonia affects what major organ?
3. Which type of pneumonia lasts longer? VIRAL OR BACTERIAL?
4. What are some major signs or symptoms of pneumonia?
A.
B.